Bøker av Peter Driscoll

'EXPLODES WITH A LOUD AND SATISFYING ROAR' New York Times'IT GRABBED ME AND KEPT ME GOING' Len Deighton'A FIRST-RATE, HIGH-POWERED THRILLER' Desmond Bagley'ONE OF THE WORLD'S BEST THRILLER WRITERS' Irish Independent*****Mining engineer Jim Keogh is enjoying a relaxing break in Cape Town when he witnesses a sadistic policemen's violent attempt to arrest a black man.Appalled by the policeman's brutality, Keogh steps in and helps the man escape.But unknown to Keogh, the man he has helped is Shack Twala, a high-profile black rights activist recently escaped from Robben Island.With the policeman badly injured, Keogh and Twala are now both wanted men, and the regime's most lethal operatives are sent after them.As the fugitives race 900 miles to cross the border to safety, they are drawn into a conspiracy much bigger and deadlier than they realize...THE WILBY CONSPIRACY is a thrilling mix of high adventure, political conspiracy and pursuit set in Apartheid South Africa which fans of Ken Follett, Frederick Forsyth and Wilbur Smith will love - and which was made into a successful Hollywood movie starring Michael Caine, Sidney Poitier and Rutger Hauer.PRAISE FOR PETER DRISCOLL AND THE WILBY CONSPIRACY: 'Even trickier and more polished than The Odessa File' New York Times'The best chase story I have read for a long time' Eric Ambler'A real winner... You'll be entertained and intrigued every step of the way until the totally unexpected finale' Publishers Weekly'No doubt about it at all, this is a real thriller writer who knows how to write with three-dimensional physical force... an all-action spellbinder' The Scotsman'Welcome to a new thriller master, a writer who knows how to build up tension and keep a story moving at top speed' John Braine'The headlong action moves from Cape Town to Johannesburg to the bush, in a high-tension game of political intrigue. The plot is gripping and superbly ingenious. Beats Le Carré and the rest at their own game' New York Magazine'Driscoll is a good writer and... he has us at his mercy all the way' The New Yorker'A Slam-bang winner!' Saturday Review

'RUTHLESSLY IMPOSED SUSPENSE' The Times'ONE OF THE BEST THRILLERS OF THE YEAR' Washington PostAs the distrust, betrayal and terror that pervade 1970s Northern Ireland threaten to boil over into a full-scale civil war, British Intelligence make a last, desperate play for peace.Harry Finn, an Englishman in Belfast secretly working for the British government, is sent to destroy a Protestant extremist leader, James Kilshaw.But the ancient hatreds which inflame Catholics and Protestants soon engulf Finn. He is a man in the middle - useful to all sides but also expendable.Gradually Finn becomes aware that he is acting out a part in a drama where morality has no role, truth has little meaning, and human life counts for nothing.And as the threat of war draws closer with each passing hour, Harry Finn realises that it is he, the outsider, who must stage the drama's ending if he is to stay alive.PRAISE FOR PETER DRISCOLL AND IN CONNECTION WITH KILSHAW: 'A wonderfully fast-paced narrative that literally has you holding your breath... a brilliant edge-of-the-seat novel' Ken Bruen'One of the world's best thriller writers' Irish Independent'Memorably vivid situations... brutal journalistic instinct for the hot spot' The Times'Fast... and wholly entertaining' The Guardian'Outstanding' Birmingham Evening Mail'Driscoll is a find... He is a crafty, expert, spell-making writer' Cincinnati Post'He writes with utter fluency' New York Times'Immediately takes his place with such masters of suspense and excitement as Alistair MacLean and Frederick Forsyth' Denver Post'Beats le Carré and the rest at their own game' New York Magazine'He weaves a tight drama of suspense and adventure around an existing social-political situation' St. Louis Post-Dispatch

'ONE OF THE WORLD'S BEST THRILLER WRITERS' Irish Independent'AN ALL-ACTION FIRST NOVEL OF ESPRIONAGE, BETRAYAL AND VIOLENCE' Daily MirrorNews photographer Michael Mannis had done 'a little business' with MI5 before - but those were straightforward, small-time jobs with little danger and no consequences.When Mannis is offered an unusually large fee to slip into communist Albania and take covert photographs of a structure that may not even exist, he suspects he might be getting into something far more serious.According to Mannis's contact at MI5, the assignment involves telling 'only a few' white lies about his background.But when Mannis learns the true and desperate importance of what he must do, his suspicions are confirmed.The fate of Western Europe may hinge on whether or not Mannis takes the photographs - and more than one superpower will stop at nothing to get them...Praise for Peter Driscoll and The White Lie Assignment: 'A lot of violence, betrayal and blood' Daily Mail'Driscoll is a find... He is a crafty, expert, spell-making writer' Cincinnati Post'He writes with utter fluency' New York Times'Immediately takes his place with such masters of suspense and excitement as Alistair MacLean and Frederick Forsyth' Denver Post'Beats le Carré and the rest at their own game' New York Magazine'Nice first thriller, tough, tense, about London-Greek small-agency press photographer sent into extreme Albanian danger, with all possible double-takes and crosses lurking and achieved' Times Literary Supplement'Plenty of good action writing, from Albania to Tunisia, with heavy casualties - an effective debut' Oxford Mail